One Hundred Years of Solitude

popularize that mystification
when she conceived the trick
of reading the past in cards as
she had read the future
before. By means of that
recourse the insomniacs
began to live in a world built
on the uncertain alternatives
of the cards, where a father
was remembered faintly as
the dark man who had arrived
at the beginning of April and
a mother was remembered
only as the dark woman who